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Ready To Lift Keeps Melbourne Cup Dream Alive

13th Sep 2009

Breednet - Mark Smith - Saturday, 12 September 2009

Gerald Ryan was bullish on the chances of $13 shot Ready To Lift in the Group 3 Kingston Town Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday and the 6yo mare lived up to the expectations to provide the Rosehill based trainer with a winning treble on the day.

After coming from well back in the field with a long sustained run, Ready To Lift defeated Voice Coach by a short head with God’s Hand 1 ¾-lengths back to in third place.

It was the fifth stakes success for the daughter of More Than Ready who moves her overall record to 10 wins, 5 seconds and 1 third from 35 starts for earnings of $598,480.

Ryan indicated Ready To Lift would have her next start in the Group 2 Colin Stephen Quality at Randwick in a fortnight before backing up the following week in the Metropolitan Handicap. All going well she will then head to Melbourne for the Moonee Valley Cup and the Melbourne Cup.

Passed in when she failed to meet her $120,000 reserve at the 2005 Easter Yearling sale, Ready To Lift made that amount when offered at the Inglis Ready To Run sale later that year.

From the second crop of More Than Ready (USA), Ready To Lift is the 13th foal of her dam On The Rise who was 20-years old when she produced Ready To Lift.

Bred by Dennis Roberts and raised on his property Trevannah at Blandford in the upper Hunter Valley, Ready To Lift is one of three stakes-winners for On The Rise. The daughter of Crested Wave (USA) had previously left the Group 2 winners Dopff (Tights) and Rizon (Zabeel).

Roberts kept a 25% interest in Ready To Lift and he has retained On The Rise’s last foal, a 3yo filly by Reset named Apollo’s Pride, which made an impressive winning debut at Canterbury on November 20 last year and has not started since.

Roberts had purchased On The Rise from Wood Nook Stud’s Bob Scarborough for $26,000 eight years ago.

A half sister to stakes winners Khamacruz (Sir Tristram) and Snow Chief (Balmerino), On The Rise is out of a stakes-winning half-sister to George Ryder Stakes winner Prince Ruling (Ruling) and the multiple stakes-winner Rosie’s Girl (Zamazaan).